Yoshinori Ohsumi
Appearance
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Born | Fukuoka, Japan | 9 Februar 1945
Naitionality | Japanese |
Alma mater | Varsity o Tokyo |
Kent for | Autophagy |
Awairds | Nobel Prize in Pheesiology or Medicine (2016) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cell biologist |
Institutions | Tokyo Institute o Technology |
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Yoshinori Ohsumi (大隅 良典 Ōsumi Yoshinori, born February 9, 1945) is a Japanese cell biologist specialisin in autophagy, the process that cells uise tae destroy an recycle cellular components. Ohsumi is a professor at Tokyo Institute o Technology's Institute o Innovative Research.[1] He received the Kyoto Prize for Basic Science in 2012[2] an the 2016 Nobel Prize in Pheesiology or Medicine, for his discoveries o mechanisms for autophagy.[3]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Yoshinori Ohsumi's Entry at ORCID
- ↑ Biemiller, Lawrence (10 November 2012). "Kyoto Prize Is Awarded to 3 Scholars". The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: The Ticker. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016". The Nobel Foundation. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
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